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Zimbabwe ConCourt rules age of consent now 18
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday raised the age of sexual consent from 16 to 18 in a landmark ruling with far-reaching consequences.The ruling follows an application by two Harare...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos boss approaches ConCourt over lawyer ban
DYNAMOS Football Club chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo, who is accused of fraudulently awarding himself the majority shareholding of the club, has filed an application for referral to the Constitut...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora aide withdraws by-elections challenge
LEGAL adviser to the Douglas Mwonzora-led opposition MDC-T, Tapera Sengweni has withdrawn his Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge seeking to stop the March 26 by-elections.A letter dated...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1203 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri trial opens
CELLPHONES believed to be owned by Citizens Coalition for Change members – Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri were active on internet and various social media platforms during the time the two claim...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:31hrs | 151 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri Constitutional Court referral application dismissed
CHIEF magistrate Mrs Faith Mushure today dismissed Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) members Joana Mamombe and Cecelia Chimbiri's application for referral of their case where they allegedly faked the...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 15:51hrs | 126 | by Staff reporter
CCC candidate challenges bid to stop by-elections
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) Highfield West constituency parliamentary candidate Happymore Chidziva has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application challenging a bid by MDC Alliance lea...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 07:01hrs | 807 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora seeks to block by-elections
UNDER-FIRE MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora has through his legal adviser Tapera Sengweni, filed an urgent chamber application at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) seeking nullification of the b...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa powers challenge judgement reserved
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) on Wednesday reserved judgment in a matter in which legal think-tank Veritas, and Dzivarasekwa MP Edwin Mushoriwa are challenging a law which critics say concentrat...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt hears Amendment No 2 Act challenge
THE Constitutional Court will today hear an application filed by legal think-tank, Veritas, which seeks to nullify a law which critics say concentrated power in President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Co...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Mawere demands judge's recusal
Exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed a Constitutional Court application seeking the recusal of Justice Rita Makarau in a case where the constitutionality of the Reconstruction of State-Indebted...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:35hrs | 194 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sued over companies
South African-based Zimbabwean businessman Mutumwa Mawere has filed a Constitutional Court application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing him of having used the seizure of his companies to ...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 09:00hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Dramatic new twists and turns in Mnangagwa's fresh lawsuit
THE convoluted case about accountability and the rule of law in which a Harare man Tichaona Mupasiri has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appo...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:46hrs | 1190 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga estranged wife judgment date set
HARARE magistrate Mr Lazini Ncube will on March 29 decide whether Marry Mubaiwa is guilty or not on allegations of misrepresenting that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga consented to solemnise their...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:39hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
State objects to Mamombe, Chimbiri application
THE State yesterday objected to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members, Joana Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiris', application to tender into the court record a video they claimed to have obtained fro...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:27hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe mum on abduction
LEGISLATOR Joana Mamombe yesterday refused to tell the court what happened after they left Harare Central police station in a police vehicle on the day they alleged to have been abducted sometime in M...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses Sikhala's application
Harare Magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje has dismissed an application by legislator Job Sikhala to have his matter referred to the Constitutional Court.Sikhala is charged with publishing false s...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 21:17hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe permit holders bank on SA ConCourt ruling
A SOUTH AFRICAN Constitutional Court ruling late last year could provide some reprieve for Zimbabweans battling possible deportation after the expiry of their special exemption permits last month....Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:24hrs | 2218 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe, Chimbiri approach ConCourt
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance activists Joanah Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri have filed a notice to apply for referral of their matter to the Constitutional Court (ConCourt).The two stand accused of ...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:36hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Court grants woman R10m maintenance
A Zimbabwean woman based in South Africa has won R10 Million maintenance from the estate of her late partner with whom she was cohabitating for two years.This is after that country's Constitut...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 09:00hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | 2837 | by Lindiwe Sisulu
Zec credibility questioned
THE recent announcement by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) that only 2000 new voters were registered in 2021 has once again raised credibility issues against the electoral body.Zimbabw...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:39hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taken to court
A HARARE man has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of Patrick Chinamasa as director and chairman of the embattled Air Zimbabwe argu...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:50hrs | 2811 | by Staff reporter
Lobby group launches campaign to decriminalise sex work
A CAMPAIGN to decriminalise sex work was last week launched in Bulawayo with the aim of lobbying policymakers to consider sex as a profession.The campaign was launched by the Sexual Rights Cen...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:47hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges hear own appeal
SUPREME Court judges on Tuesday presided over their own appeal against a judgment by the High Court, which outlawed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term of offi...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Marriot loses ConCourt bid in Dynamos fraud case
DYNAMOS Football Club board chairperson Bernard Marriot Lusengo yesterday lost his bid for referral of his matter, involving the club's shareholding, to the Constitutional Court after a Harare magistr...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala wants apex court referral
MDC-Alliance legislator Job Sikhala yesterday applied for referral of his matter in which he is charged with publishing false statements prejudicial to the State to the Constitutional Court.Si...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti to face the music
A HARARE magistrate yesterday dismissed an application for exception filed by MDC Alliance vice-president Tendai Biti who is accused of assaulting a Russian woman in November last year outside the Har...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna survives Parly ouster bid
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance member Gift Konjana yesterday again lost his bid to reclaim the Chegutu West parliamentary seat after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) dismissed his appeal challenging the l...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends lockdown
Zimbabwe on Tuesday extended its Covid-19 lockdown by a further two weeks, but licenced bars will be allowed to re-open to fully vaccinated patrons.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 20:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ConCourt throws out MDC Alliance MP's win over Zanu PF's Dexter Nduna
THE Constitutional Court (ConCourt) Tuesday dismissed an appeal by MDC Alliance's Gift Konjana who was challenging Chegutu West legislator Dexter Nduna's controversial win in the 2018 parliamentary el...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and dodgy Zanu-PF characters
WHEN Zanu-PF activist Marx Mupungu filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application in June seeking to quash the High Court judgment by the three brave judges who had barred Chief Justice Malaba fr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:21hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case: The key actors
ZIMBABWE, for the past four months has been going through a constitutional test and legal drama following the extension of Chief Justice Luke Malaba's term in May, which was put to bed last week follo...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Judges set wrong precedent by hearing own case
CONSTITUTIONAL Court judges who overturned a High Court ruling that Chief Justice Luke Malaba's continued stay in office beyond 70 years was illegal despite being cited have set a wrong precedent by b...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa need votes not retweets
For the first time the biggest opposition party in Zimbabwe led by the young man has come up with a good catch phrase or maybe it's the new slogan hameno. NGAAPINDE HAKE MUKOMANA. Today I am n...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 20:06hrs | 15 | by Mapombi
Forum maintains stance on Malaba
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (NGO Forum) is maintaining its objection to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to extend Chief Justice Luke Malaba's tenure with five years, despite the Consti...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's man back in charge
AFTER a bruising battle President Emmerson Mnangagwa's agenda to retain the services of Chief Justice Luke Malaba at the helm of the administration of justice, as part of his power consolidation and r...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chief Justice Luke Malaba is legit, ConCourt rules
CHIEF Justice Luke Malaba will now stay in office for five more years after the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) yesterday overturned an earlier ruling by the High Court that his continued stay in offi...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Concourt clears Chief Justice Malaba
Chief Justice Luke Malaba will now serve in line with the Constitution until his 75th birthday in May 2026 after the Constitutional Court yesterday overturned a High Court order and confirmed that all...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zuma will never win a court case in South Africa
The Constitutional Court on Friday dismissed former president Jacob Zuma's application to rescind the court's earlier judgment, which sentenced him to 15 months' imprisonment for contempt of court....Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC infighting explained
FRESH Storm is brewing in the MDC Alliance after senior leaders are reported to have recommended the expulsion of Gift Ostallos Siziba, the Secretary-General of the MDC Youth Assembly.One Twit...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 14:19hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
'Not even a presidential pardon can correct Zuma's illegal detention'
One of the parties that has been asked by the Constitutional Court (Concourt) to make submissions regarding the "illegal detention" of former president Jacob Zuma and his rescission application says f...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 11:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Captured' SA ConCourt trying to unscramble the illegal jailing of Jacob Zuma
The Constitutional Court has asked the legal teams of former president Jacob Zuma and other parties to submit documents addressing the international law and constitutional implications of his detentio...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga takes child custody case to ConCourt
BUSINESSMAN Frank Buyanga wants the Constitutional Court to overturn a Supreme Court judgment and find that the biological father of a child born out of wedlock does in fact have an automatic right to...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:10hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case in new twist
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika yesterday snubbed a Constitutional Court hearing which sought to reverse a High Court order dismissing the extension of Chief Justice Luke ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora vote remains a pipe dream ahead of 2023 polls
While citizens of some Southern African countries such as South Africa, Mozambique and Malawi enjoy the right to vote in national elections while domiciled in other countries, for millions of Zimbabwe...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malaba crisis: Kika's lawyers ditches the case?
Lawyers for rights lawyer Musa Kika notify Constitutional Court they will not file papers or appear in court Friday after judges refused to recuse in challenge brought by Zanu-PF supporter Marx Mapung...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 17:47hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Malaba case 'now lawfare' says Govt
THE battle to ensure Chief Justice Luke Malaba stays in office intensified yesterday, with top government officials describing the ongoing Constitutional Court (ConCourt) challenge as "lawfare."...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
ConCourt judges to decide on Chief Justice Malaba
The Constitutional Court will now decide the validity of the High Court order blocking Chief Justice Luke Malaba from opting under the Constitution to stay in office for an additional five years after...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kika's application kicked out by ConCourt judges as lawfare escales in Zimbabwe
Constitutional Court judges dismiss an application by lawyer Musa Kika for their recusal from hearing a matter brought by Zanu-PF activist Marx Mapungu, seeking confirmation that CJ Luke Malaba's term...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fresh headache for Malaba
ZIMBABWE Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika yesterday filed a fresh application seeking the recusal of judges set to preside over a case where a Zanu-PF activist wants the Constitutio...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
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